[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13340: wpautop breaks inline MathML (was: wpautop breaks inline MathMl)

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#13340: wpautop breaks inline MathML
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 Reporter:  nicholaswilson  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  Formatting      |     Version:  2.9.2
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by SteelWagstaff):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  wontfix =>


Comment:

 Hi all,

 While it’s true that browser support for MathML is incomplete, MathML has
 been a W3C recommendation for more than 15 years, the 3rd version
 (released in 2014) is an ISO standard, and it has been a standard element
 in the HTML5 specification since 2014 (references:
 https://www.w3.org/TR/MathML/ +
 https://www.w3.org/2015/06/mathmlpas.html.en +
 https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/semantics-embedded-content.html#mathml).
 Furthermore, there’s a widely-used, openly-licensed, cross-platform
 JavaScript display engine for mathematics called MathJax that works in all
 browsers that can accept MathML as one of its input syntaxes
 (https://www.mathjax.org/). There are clear reasons, based both in our
 desire to use web standards and to make more accessible websites, that
 many of us would like to use MathML in our WordPress-based sites. Would
 you be willing to reconsider your decision not to treat <math> as a
 "first-class citizen of wpautop()", or failing that, allow us to filter
 the strings proposed a few months ago by @conner_bw?

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